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The Damnation of Theron Ware

CHAPTER VIII
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It was impossible to pretend not to be listening to it; but the doctor submitted with an obvious scowl, and bit off the tip of his third cigar with an annoyed air.
"You don't seem to care much for music," suggested Mr.Ware, when a lull came.
Dr.Ledsmar looked up, lighted match in hand.

"Say musicians!" he growled.

"Has it ever occurred to you," he went on, between puffs at the flame, "that the only animals who make the noises we call music are of the bird family--a debased offshoot of the reptilian creation--the very lowest types of the vertebrata now in existence?
I insist upon the parallel among humans.

I have in my time, sir, had considerable opportunities for studying close at hand the various orders of mammalia who devote themselves to what they describe as the arts.

It may sound a harsh judgement, but I am convinced that musicians stand on the very bottom rung of the ladder in the sub-cellar of human intelligence, even lower than painters and actors." This seemed such unqualified nonsense to the Rev.Mr.Ware that he offered no comment whatever upon it.


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